Defence Line of Amsterdam (UNESCO/NHK)
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th century, the people of the Netherlands have used their expert knowledge of hydraulic engineering for defence purposes. The centre of the country was protected by a network of 45 armed forts, acting in concert with temporary flooding from polders ...
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Defence Line of Amsterdam - UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tour of the 19th-century defences of Amsterdam, a series of 46 impressive forts in a huge ring around the city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The plan was, if the Netherlands was attacked, they could flood the area with a a colossal amount of water, preventing armies from reaching the city. A moat, 13 kilometres in diameter - only the Dutch!
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De Stelling van Amsterdam is een stelsel van verdedigings¬werken, aangelegd tussen 1880 en 1920. Het is een ring van forten, dammen, sluizen dijken en wallen rond Amsterdam. Het leger had het water als het ware in de vingers en maakte daarmee de inname van Amsterdam in militair opzicht vrijwel onmogelijk.
The Defence Line of Amsterdam is a system of defence works constructed between 1880 and 1920. It consists of a ring of forts, dams, locks, dykes and ramparts around Amsterdam. It turned the waterways into a weapon under the control of the army and made a military conquest of Amsterdam virtually impossible.
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Defence line of Amsterdam - Fort Spijkerboor - World Heritage
The Stelling or 'Defence Line' of Amsterdam is a system of military defences, constructed between 1880 and 1920. It is a ring of forts, dams, sluices, dikes and banking around the city of Amsterdam.
The Stelling was actually never used. Fairly soon after its completion, the first bomber aircraft took to the sky and the character of war changed completely. The Stelling lost its purpose. What remained were beautiful imprints in the landscape where increasingly nature did its own thing.
Fort Spijkerboor borders the Dutch polder de Beemster, another name on the world heritage list. Spijkerboor is the only fort where you can see a turret. The fort is now in hands of nature protection interests, groups that have here raised the marriage of history and nature to an art form.
Open to visitors, complete with a tour to bring the local history of olden days back to life.
During the second world war Spijkerboor actually served as a POW prison (prisoner of war prison), the occupiers having quickly understood that the walls wouldn't give way and that a nail file wouldn't get an inmate very far.
In more recent times an army of volunteers gradually restored the forts. Suitable parts were rented out to associations, wine merchants or starting musicians.
Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.
The 26-part tv-series HERITAGE SITES of the WORLD is available in Dutch and English. Information at stockshot.nl/worldheritagesites/
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Defence Line of Amsterdam
The Defence Line of Amsterdam is a system of defense works constructed between 1880 and 1920. It consists of a ring of forts, dams, locks, dikes and ramparts around Amsterdam. It turned the waterways into a weapon under the control of the army and made a military conquest of Amsterdam virtually impossible.
Spijkerboor is the only fort where you can see a turret. During the second world war Spijkerboor actually served as a POW prison (prisoner of war prison), the occupiers having quickly understood that the walls wouldnt give way and that a nail file wouldnt get an inmate very far.
In more recent times an army of volunteers gradually restored the fort. The fort is now in hands of nature protection interests, groups that have here raised the marriage of history and nature to an art form.
Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.
The 26-part tv-series HERITAGE SITES of the WORLD is available in Dutch and English.
Information at stockshot.nl/worldheritagesites/
Visit WWW.STOCKSHOT.NL for highres version or broadcast video footage.
Film about the Defence Line of Amsterdam, World Heritage and close to Amsterdam
The three UNESCO World Heritage sites – the Amsterdam Canal Ring, the Beemster Polder and the Amsterdam Defence Line – are totally different.
But they still have a lot in common. The Beemster Polder and the Amsterdam Canal Ring clearly stem from the seventeenth century, when the Golden Age was at its peak and Amsterdam was expanding as a prosperous and cosmopolitan centre of trade.
The Defence Line, dating from the late nineteenth century, was built for military protection purposes, and has left a unique collection of forts and waterworks in the flat landscape around Amsterdam. At the time, the Amsterdam Defence Line was a highly ambitious and innovative project – on a par with the Canal Ring and the Beemster Polder two centuries before.
This film explains in 3,5 minutes the connection between these World Heritage Sites.
Defence Line of Amsterdam (UNESCO/NHK)
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th century, the people of the Netherlands have used their expert knowledge of hydraulic engineering for defence purposes. The centre of the country was protected by a network of 45 armed forts, acting in concert with temporary flooding from polders ...
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Film about the Defence Line of Amsterdam, UNESCO World Heritage
The Canal Ring, the Beemster Polder and the Amsterdam Defence Line are all part of the same big story: how the people of Holland were able, through the centuries, to give shape substance to the landscape they lived in and make it serve their needs.
The Amsterdam city authority, the venture capitalists of the Beemster Company, the Ministry of War – it was technological innovation that enabled each and every one of them to transform sodden peat marshes into a fertile, aesthetic and accommodating landscape.
The World Heritage sites in and around Amsterdam illustrate better than anything else the ‘building blocks’ of the kingdom of the Netherlands. We must care for these areas so that future generations can also enjoy the never-ending avenues of trees in the Beemster, a boat trip through the canals, and the green and open no-man’s land of bygone eras. Three UNESCO World Heritage sites, unique for present and future generations!
Defence Line of Amsterdam
The Defence Line of Amsterdam is a system of defense works constructed between 1880 and 1920. It consists of a ring of forts, dams, locks, dykes and ramparts around Amsterdam. It turned the waterways into a weapon under the control of the army and made a military conquest of Amsterdam virtually impossible.
Spijkerboor is the only fort where you can see a turret. During the second world war Spijkerboor actually served as a POW prison (prisoner of war prison), the occupiers having quickly understood that the walls wouldnt give way and that a nail file wouldnt get an inmate very far.
In more recent times an army of volunteers gradually restored the fort. The fort is now in hands of nature protection interests, groups that have here raised the marriage of history and nature to an art form.
Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.
The 26-part tv-series HERITAGE SITES of the WORLD is available in Dutch and English.
Information at stockshot.nl/worldheritagesites/
Visit WWW.STOCKSHOT.NL for highres version or broadcast video footage.
The Defence Line of Amsterdam - ‘Dutch UNESCO World Heritage is… famous around the world!’
Dutch UNESCO World Heritage is… famous around the world! The Kingdom of the Netherlands has ten UNESCO World Heritage sites. These sites are unique in the world. Mireille and Rishi from Congo will let you know more about the Defence Line of Amsterdam.
MENTAL EXPLORATION 272 - DEFENCE LINE OF AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
DEFENCE LINE OF AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Stelling van Amsterdam
Film over de Stelling van Amsterdam
Defence line of Amsterdam - Fort Pampus - World Heritage
The Stelling or 'Defence Line' of Amsterdam is a system of military defences, constructed between 1880 and 1920. It is a ring of forts, dams, sluices, dikes and banking around the city of Amsterdam.
On the east side of the Stelling you can sail to the island of Pampus. It looks like a church in a western. In the middle of a shallow area in the water they built the fort. In the first world war 200 soldiers were stationed on the island. The first and last time that Pampus was in full operation. For the soldiers it was no paradise island as average temperatures were low and humidity was high.
But no shot was ever fired in anger from Pampus, something you can't say for a lot of other places in the world.
Na de Frans-Duitse oorlog van 1870 was het Nederlands bestuur bevreesd voor een aanval op Amsterdam. Men bouwde rondom Amsterdam een vestingring: de Stelling van Amsterdam. Voor de monding van het IJ werd op een hoger gelegen gedeelte van het Muiderzand een forteiland gebouwd, het fort bij het Pampus genaamd.
Het fort staat op 4000 heipalen van 11 meter lang. Het is voltooid in 1895 en is nooit voor enige oorlogshandeling gebruikt. Fort Pampus werd in 1933, één jaar na het gereedkomen van de Afsluitdijk gesloten.
In de winter van 1944, de Hongerwinter, was het eiland over het ijs bereikbaar. Al eerder hadden de Duitsers het metaal van het eiland verwijderd voor hun industrie en in 1944 haalde de Amsterdamse bevolking het hout eruit om zich warm te stoken. Het fort raakte hierdoor in verval maar wordt tegenwoordig door vrijwilligers geconserveerd.
Officially designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, this site is to be safeguarded for the future as a testimony to its enduring past.
The 26-part tv-series HERITAGE SITES of the WORLD is available in Dutch and English. Information at stockshot.nl/worldheritagesites/
Visit for highres version or broadcast video footage.
playlist Defence Line of Amsterdam:
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Stelling van Amsterdam
De Forten Noord en Zuid- in Spaarndam.
Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Landschap met Liniedijken
De Stelling van Amsterdam is Unesco werelderfgoed geworden in 1996. Deze 135 kilometer lange verdedingslinie is tussen 1880 en 1914 aangelegd. Het leger, de regering en de koning(in) zouden zich binnen deze ring kunnen terugtrekken bij een aanval op Nederland. De Stelling bestaat uit 46 forten en batterijen, dijken, sluizen op een afstand van 15 tot 20 kilometer van Amsterdam.
Het idee achter de Stelling van Amsterdam is een staaltje Hollands waterbouwkundig vernuft. Met een ingenieus systeem kon het land rondom de linie onder water worden gezet, waardoor een waterplas kon onstaan, niet diep genoeg voor schepen en te diep voor man en paard. Nog voordat de Stelling was voltooid, was hij al achterhaald. De opkomst van het vliegtuig ontnam de linie zijn betekenis. Ook al werd de Stelling van Amsterdam tijdens de twee wereldoorlogen wel in staat van verdediging gebracht, er hoefde nooit daadwerkelijk gevochten te worden. Inmiddels hebben een groot aantal forten een nieuwe bestemming gekregen.
De Stelling van Amsterdam is niet alleen een uniek systeem van forten, dijken en sluizen; het is ook een groene en relatief stille ring rond Amsterdam. Door de 'Kringenwet', die tot 1963 bleef gehandhaafd, mocht er in de omgeving van een fort niet worden gebouwd, daardoor is de omgeving door de jaren heen groen gebleven. Hierdoor is de Stelling van Amsterdam sinds 2004 aangewezen als Nationaal Landschap.
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Stellingmaand promo
Gedurende de weekeinden in de maand september is het Stellingmaand en zijn vele forten van de Stelling van Amsterdam toegankelijk voor het publiek.
De Stelling van Amsterdam, Drinkwatervoorziening Rijkshemelvaart
DE RIJKSHEMELVAARTDIENST is een onderdeel van de Stelling van Amsterdam. René Ros, Specialist van de Stelling van Amsterdam geeft een rondleiding langs de militaire drinkwatervoorziening bij Amsterdam Sloten. De Genie Rijkshemelvaartdienst werd begin vorige eeuw gebouwd en is nu in gebruik als huisvesting en ateliers.
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Short introduction to the Water Defence Line of Amsterdam
Educatieve film over Stelling van Amsterdam - De Werking van een Fort
Museion Media produceerde in opdracht van de provincie Noord-Holland een reeks educatieve films voor het onderwijs. Onderwerp was de Stelling van Amsterdam. Script en research door Huib Lirb en Regie en camera door John Twigt.
Deze film handelt over de bewapening enwerking van een fort en stamt uit de reeks bedoeld voor de hoogste klassen van het basisonderwijs.
De serie films is in gewijzigde vorm ook gemaakt voor de laagste klassen van het voortgezet onderwijs.
Presentatie : Anic van Damme
Acteur : Huug van Tienhoven
Productie : Ade Ong & Feliz Coll
Script & Research : drs. Huib J. Lirb
Regie & Camera : John Twigt
Geluid : Dutch Indies
Faciliteiten : Workstation BV & Dutch Indies